January/February 2018 | Vol. 33 | No. 1

Featured Articles

Don’t let your performance suffer as an expert witness during a deposition because of an overbearing attorney asking the questions. Here are tips on how to keep your cool and do a great job for your client.

Ransomware, which morphed from scareware fraud around 1998, isn’t abating. Fraudsters are still holding electronic devices ransom with creative variants and extorting money and personally identifiable information. Here are some of the historical and current developments plus ways to help others avoid ransomware.

Kelly Richmond Pope, Ph.D., CFE, CPA, an associate accounting professor, has produced and directed a riveting documentary, “All the Queen’s Horses,” about Rita Crundwell’s historic $53 million embezzlement from the city of Dixon, Illinois.

The darknet is the latest example of technology that’s become a breeding ground for criminal activity. Combating virtual crime in this subset of the deep web is exceedingly difficult because of its anonymity. However, here are some ways law enforcement and fraud examiners are fighting these elusive miscreants.